Launching Outlook from Command Prompt

[Ashraf Moollan www.ssw.com.au]

Hi All,

When I do start>run and type "outlook", outlook launches successfully, even
though the path to outlook isn't set. If I try to type in outlook in command
prompt, outlook doesn't launch.

Any ideas where start>run gets the path to outlook from? This also seem to
work if I do a 'System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("outlook.exe")' under
vb.net

I'd really like to know how to determine the path to outlook.exe, given
that, as I said, it's not in path variable.

Any help/directions much appreciated

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Regards,

Ashraf Moollan
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[Jose]

I did a registry search for .msg since I know Outlook is
the registered handler for this file type.

That led me to the registry value HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /
msgfile / shell / open / command, whose default value
contains the path to the Outlook executable.

You might be able to use this for your needs.

Jose